DISPOSAL OF UNUSED MEDICINES -A REVIEWJensa John VL. PanayappanK. KrishnakumarLeo Mathew
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Practice regarding disposal of expired and unused medicines among students of University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Disposing medicines with solid waste mean that the large amount of medicines would end up in the landfill. This raised a risk of groundwater contamination...
Countries should consider requiring pharmaceutical companies to collect and destroy unused or expired medicines that they have put on the market, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said. In its report 'Management of pharmaceutical household waste: Limiting environmental...
Indeed, the action/s of health professionals in prescribing and supplying medicines should be recognised as contributors to the rates of unwanted or unused medicines. Doctors and pharmacists have a significant role to inform the public on safe medicines disposal practices [14, 22], yet the need ...
We aimed to systematically review cross-sectional studies of unused medicines that described the prevalence, types of unused medicine, disposal practices and factors associated with unused medicines. METHODS. We searched Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. We ...
Among the participants 75% said that government should be responsible to create awareness for proper disposal of unused medicines.Conclusions: The present study brought out the current status and lacuna towards the disposal of medicines. Patients do not use all the medications and there is lack of...
2013. Landfill disposal of unused medicines reduces surface water releases. Integr Environ Assess Manage 9:142-154.Tischler, L., Buzby, M., Finan, D. S. and Cunningham, V. L.. (2012), "Landfill disposal of unused medicines reduces surface water releases", Integr Environ Assess Manag, Vol...
Public awareness, knowledge, and attitude regarding proper disposal of unused medicines and associated factors in Gondar city, northwest Ethiopiadoi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1372739Tegegne, Addisu AfrassaGenet, GebremariamLimenh, Liknaw WorkieYohannes, Lamrot...
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Disposal of Unused, Unwanted and Expired Medicines among Healthcare Professionalsdoi:10.3126/kumj.v20i3.53948Sarraf D. P.Rauniar G. P.Kushwaha R. P.Keshwar S.Maharjan R.Kathmandu University Medical Journal...